DES-4121 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A technician needs to install the OS on a server remotely using iDRAC. What is the minimum iDRAC license required to perform this task?

A. Express

B. Enterprise

C. Basic

D. Baseboard Management Controller

A server is equipped with 2 CPUs and 12x 8 GB DIMMs, for a total of 96 GB. The OS is not seeing all the memory. Which memory mode should be configured so that all memory is seen by the OS?

A. Mirroring

B. Advanced ECC

C. Optimizer

D. Sparing

A technician deletes the iDRAC Express license on a R440 server. Which license type is then enabled?

A. iDRAC Express license cannot be deleted

B. iDRAC Basic license

C. iDRAC Enterprise license

D. iDRAC will not have a license until a new one is installed

A technician receives an email alert that one of the drives on a server has failed. Upon replacing the bad drive, they receive a second email alert that the same drive has failed. The technician installs the replacement drive in another server and it works correctly.

What is a valid troubleshooting step for this issue?

A. Replace the PERC

B. Recreate the RAID array

C. Perform a full initialization on the replacement drive

D. Verify that the drive firmware is up to date

A system administrator needs to install OpenManage Server Administrator on 200 servers. What is the quickest way to meet this requirement?

A. Use the Lifecycle Controller to install OpenManage Server Administrator on each server.

B. Install OME and push OpenManage Server Administrator to all 200 servers.

C. Use Microsoft utilities to automate the deployment of OpenManage Server Administrator.

D. Download OpenManage Server Administrator from Dell.com and install on each server.

A server is being up as a VMware ESXi host. A technician needs to install the OS on an internal SD card. They install the SD card. However, during OS installation, the SD card is not visible.

What should the technician do to fix the issue?

A. Enable the SD card in the BIOS Settings

B. Format the SD card with an EXT3 partition before installation

C. Move the SD card from slot 2 to slot 1

D. Use Lifecycle Controller to install the SD card

A technician is ready to deploy a server. If a critical part such as the system board fails, they must be able to replace the system board, reconfigure components, and update the firmware revisions in the fastest possible time.

How should the technician meet this requirement?

A. Back up the profile using the System Profile Settings

B. Use the iDRAC Rollback feature to restore the firmware revisions

C. Use the iDRAC GUI to back up the Server Profile

D. Back up component configurations using iSM

A technician is sent-on-site to troubleshoot a server that reports errors during POST when rebooted. The following error message is displayed: "Correctable memory error rate exceeded for DIMM B4". The LCD is amber. The server has a limited maintenance window so the technician needs to troubleshoot efficiently.

What should the technician do?

A. Swap DIMM with A4 to narrow down the issue

B. Replace DIMM B4 as time is limited

C. Swap DIMM B4 with B2

D. Reseat all memory

What are benefits of installing the Dell iDRAC Service Module?

A. Ability to update firmware on the server. iDRAC access via host OS

B. Remote iDRAC reset. Ability to update firmware on the server

C. iDRAC access via host OS. Ability to access the Lifecycle Controller for server updates

D. In-band SNMP traps for hardware alerts. Remote iDRAC reset

A server is configured with a RAID 5 Virtual Disk across five hard disks and one spare disk. If a hard disk failure occurs within the RAID 5 virtual disk, the spare disk needs to be online as quickly as possible. It is acceptable for users to experience decreased performance during the rebuild procedure.

How should this requirement be met?

A. Enable Rebuild Priority

B. Increase Rebuild Rate

C. Change cache to Write Through

D. Select Fast Rebuild